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<p>Hi Alex,</p>
<p>Have you had any success compiling Bishop? What operating system
do you use for development?</p>
<p>I like many of your features you list below. I am in the middle
of a mostly failed UI experiment right now.</p>
<p>My primary use for Bishop is to try to make reading original
languages during my morning devotionals not a distraction from the
devotional.</p>
<p>Showing the English/[Greek|Hebrew] parallel view, which is the
default from a clean install, is useful, but I find myself reading
the English more often then struggling through the Greek or
Hebrew. I like the Verse Study/Word Study tool for mobile
devices, which basically breaks out the verse text word by word
and gives a short definition with each word, but I don't like to
have to switch between the screens. So, my plan to make this more
seamless during reading was to create different display "Modes".
The current mode, which can display up to 3 Bibles in parallel,
I've kept the default and named "Bible". I've added 2 new display
modes: Language Assist and Commentary Assist. Both of these are
split screen modes which show the primary Bible text on the left
and as you scroll it populates the right with the chosen tool.
Language Assist places the Word Study tool on the right.
Commentary Assist places the Commentary tool on the right. These
are the same tools as on the Verse Study screen, but just pull
forward to the mail screen, split to the right side. I wanted to
make the scroll on the Word Study tool highlight the current word
as you scrolled, in the same way the current verse hightlights as
you scroll the Bible view. This way, when there is a word I need
help with, I can scroll the right side quickly until that word is
highlighted in the verse and then I'll know that word is in view
with it's definition on the right.</p>
<p>Well, I finished the split screen view and the 3 modes, but it
just seems a little too small in the emulator screen. The
Strong's definitions we use have a bunch of extraneous information
(like "See XXXXX; See YYYYY+ZZZZZ). Which I don't think anyone
ever uses. We don't provide nice links for these texts, though we
should. I am sure the would be used more if we did. But for now,
I was thinking of trying to hide that info. It might make the
tool more usable in the smaller split screen on the right.</p>
<p>Anyway, it was all a bright idea which seems to have not worked
out as well as I had hoped.<br>
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I like your ideas you mention below. There is a setting to increase
and decrease the font size of the entire app, so that might help
your button press difficulties. Maybe your swipe left idea might be
cool to bring up the Word Study tool instead of splitting the
screen. That would make it easier to switch between the two.<br>
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Let me know if you need help compiling the app and getting started.<br>
<br>
Troy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/09/2018 11:59 AM, Troy A.
Griffitts wrote:<br>
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<pre>Hello,
I'd like to propose the following features for Bishop:
1. Night mode.
2. Verse peek mode. The idea is to allow fullscreen viewing of your
favorite translation with the ability to "slide" a verse right or left
to see the same verse as it is translated by your next favorite
one(s). Basically, this is so one does not have to have more than one
translation shown at all times when secondary translations are only
used to gain clarity of text. Showing other texts in the "peek" view
such as related notes or commentary should also work.
3. Continuous scrolling rather than clicking for the next or previous chapter.
4. General UI improvements. A) On my Pixel 2 XL, I have trouble
clicking on some of the buttons because of their size. B) The search
feature could show the results along with previews of the matching
text in a full-width view rather than inside of the general menu. The
back button should go back to the last text location rather than
minimize the app.
5. Share a verse or a range of verses having the citation automatically added.
I have written native Android and iOS apps in the past, but I have no
experience with Cordova, so maybe some of these features are not
practical. What do you all think of these ideas, and is their
implementation possible using Cordova?
Thanks,
Alex
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